Dr. Edward J. Mahaney, Jr.
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Sustainability

 

projects/programs/plans

Sustainability and Resiliency

Competitive Grant Applications/Projects

  • Funded through PSE&G and Sustainable Jersey: Diamondback Terrapin Nesting Habitat Enhancement Pilot Project in the Borough of Avalon

  • Funded through the OceanFirst Foundation: Webcam Installation Program for the Atlantic-Cape May County Coastal Coalition

  • Funded through the Insurance Council of New Jersey: Mobile Automobile Flooding App

  • Funded through The Nature Conservancy of New Jersey for Atlantic-Cape May County Coastal Coalition’s Project: Final Design of the Living Shoreline Project, Bayview Drive, Strathmere, Upper Township NJ

  • Established cooperative working relationships for the City of Cape May with county, state, federal, and private organizational officials, achieving professional/technical services and over $20 million in competitive grants and low-interest loans for the City’s priority planning and public improvement initiatives as well as environmental and energy conservation projects over an eight-year period

  • Orchestrated the planning, funding with grant and low-interest loan funding, and completion of the restoration of the 80-year old, 700,000-gallon Madison Avenue Water Tank and the repair and painting of the 20-year old, 1-million-gallon Standpipe at Cape May City’s Public Works/Water Sewer Utility Complex.

  • Acquired federal/state grant funds and low-interest loans to continue a long-term program for sanitary sewer, stormwater management, and street reconstruction improvements throughout the City of Cape May.

  • Federal grant funding through the NJDEP and the NJDOT to dredge five back bay waterways in Cape May, removing silt build-up and debris following Superstorm Sandy, benefitting commercial and recreational fishing enterprises, private marinas and docks, local marine-oriented businesses, and commercial/residential real estate values on these waterways.

  • Collaborated with the County of Cape May utilizing federal grant funds to repair, replace, and extend the stormwater outfall pipes and cradles with state-of-the-art, non-corrosive materials on the City of Cape May’s eastern beaches, significantly reducing street flooding during storms in the eastern end of Cape May City and further reducing the opportunity for pollution and contamination on the bathing beaches as well as improving public safety for bathers and beach goers on the beach strand, and increasing the protection against surf surges during major storms.


programs/plans

  • Borough of Avalon’s Clean Water Initiative (Elimination of Plastics)

  • Local Government Energy Audit funded by the NJ Board of Public Utilities for the Borough of Avalon and Avalon Elementary School

  • Spearheaded Cape May City’s planning, permitting, financing, and installation of a reverse osmosis, two million gallons per day, water desalination plant accompanied by three new supply wells drilled into the brackish 800-foot Atlantic Sands Aquifer.

  • Installation of water meters with encoded registers and radio frequency automatic meter reading and leak detection for approximately 4,000 accounts in the City of Cape May.

  • Local Government Energy Audit and an Energy Savings Improvement Plan funded by the NJ Board of Public Utilities for critical City of Cape May and Cape May Elementary School facilities over a 15-year period.

  • Collaborated with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection to maintain the scheduled biennial beach replenishment on Cape May City’s main beaches between the U.S. Coast Guard Base and Third Avenue as part of a 50-year agreement. 

  • Collaboration among the City of Cape May, County of Cape May, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to plan, permit, finance, and construct major hazard mitigation projects on both Cape May City’s oceanfront and harbor front following Superstorm Sandy, improving 500 linear feet of protection afforded by the Beach Avenue seawall in the eastern sector of the City, and 2,200 linear feet of protection along the Delaware Avenue harbor front coastline.  The beachfront seawall project would minimize and/or eliminate Cape May’s vulnerability for severe flooding in the Wilmington Avenue/Poverty Beach sector of the City during major storms.  Verified FEMA documentation indicates that 25% of Cape May’s repetitive loss properties are in this immediate area which was hard hit by Superstorm Sandy.  The Delaware Avenue harbor front coastline has been subjected to severe erosion which has been undermining the roadway integrity of Delaware Avenue which serves as the only alternative route into the U.S. Coast Guard Training Center.